OSPCA appeals for info about 'extremely emaciated' dog found in Ottawa

Authorities are asking for help in finding the owner of an "extremely emaciated" dog found in the Nepean area of Ottawa.

OSPCA

The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is asking the public to help it find the owner of an “extremely emaciated” Labrador-cross dog that was found in Nepean in Ottawa’s southwest end in late February.

“The dog’s hips, spine and ribs were visibly protruding,” the OSPCA said in a news release on Thursday.

A passerby reported the starved, “brindle-coloured” male dog to the OSPCA on Feb. 28 after seeing it roaming around a parking lot on Stonefield Private — near the intersection of Prince of Wales Drive and Strandherd Drive in the community of Barrhaven.